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Title: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Vito on October 17, 2007, 02:14:21 AM
Check out the new Japanese hybrid bullet train: (Why can't America have something like this??)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4219935.html

Title: Re: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Ehud on October 17, 2007, 02:19:27 AM
Check out the new Japanese hybrid bullet train: (Why can't America have something like this??)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4219935.html

Because our infrastructure and economy are designed around the automobile, many people simply don't feel the need for a train like that, so they haven't demanded it and one doesn't exist.  Too bad because it makes so much sense in the U.S. because of the size of the country.
Title: Re: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Vito on October 17, 2007, 02:26:09 AM
Check out the new Japanese hybrid bullet train: (Why can't America have something like this??)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4219935.html

Because our infrastructure and economy are designed around the automobile, many people simply don't feel the need for a train like that, so they haven't demanded it and one doesn't exist.  Too bad because it makes so much sense in the U.S. because of the size of the country.

If it was built, and cheaper to run, people would use it. Boston-NY-D.C ? People would line up in droves to ride it!
Title: Re: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Vito on October 17, 2007, 03:01:13 AM

We have The Acela Express but it's too expensive. Even regular Amtrak is expensive so I just take New Jersey Transit when I come to New York.



The hybrid bullet train is extremely fuel efficient, which would cut down the travel cost a lot.
Title: Re: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Vito on October 17, 2007, 12:47:45 PM
Is that what The Acela is?



I don't know whether the Acela is diesel or not.. but it's definitely not hybrid.
Title: Re: Hybrid Bullet Trains
Post by: Vito on October 17, 2007, 12:48:15 PM
Check out the new Japanese hybrid bullet train: (Why can't America have something like this??)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/transportation/4219935.html


That almost looks like a drawing. Is it a real photograph?



That's a real photo, coolest train I've ever seen!